Chanel’s Blog

Memcached is a wonderful tool to offload database calls by storing the needed information in cache. One trick I’ve been using to increase productivity is that whenever I know I will be using complex or long running queries, I use a local instance of Memcached to cache the initial database calls. As I debug the output or tweak the logic, the average runtime of the script stays almost constant because the bulk of the processing, database calls, has been cached.

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